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unusual facts about woodcut



1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg

According to author Jason Colavito, the woodcut broadsheet became known in modern culture after being published in Carl Jung's 1958 book Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, a book which analyzed the archetypal meaning of UFOs.

1678 in literature

The Mowing-Devil: or, Strange News out of Hartford-Shire (a woodcut showing what is alleged to be the first crop circle)

Arduin

Michio Okamura was a regular contributor from the earliest volumes of the Arduin books, his distinct woodcut art style was featured on the cover of Dark Dreams (AG VI).

Carol Wax

She has also taught intaglio and woodcut courses for several years at the State University of New York at New Paltz and, in winter 2002 term, a course on Print Connoisseurship in New York University's School of Continuing Education.

Chromolithography

Chromolithography became the most successful of several methods of colour printing developed by the 19th century; other methods were developed by printers such as Jacob Christoph Le Blon, George Baxter and Edmund Evans, and mostly relied on using several woodblocks with the colours.

David Kandel

The woodcut “Rhinoceros”, for the work Cosmographia (or “Cosmography”) by Sebastian Munster is, along with his maps, also very famous and depicts a rhinoceros truly based on the Dürer sketch.

Donald C. Peattie

His best known works are the two books (out of a planned trilogy) on North American trees, A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America (1950) and A Natural History of Western Trees (1953), with woodcut illustrations by Paul Landacre.

Emblem book

This is understandable, given that the first emblem book, the Emblemata of Andrea Alciato, was first issued in an unauthorized edition in which the woodcuts were chosen by the printer without any input from the author, who had circulated the texts in unillustrated manuscript form.

Fayga Ostrower

Ostrower began work as a secretary while studying art at the Fine Arts Association, and in 1946 attended design classes at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation’s Brazilian Society of Fine and Graphic Arts, where she studied metal and wood engraving, and art history, with tutors Axel Leskoschek, Tomás Santa Rosa, Carlos Oswald and Anna Levy.

Fritz Kredel

Kredel illustrated Eleanor Roosevelt's children's book, Christmas, and was commissioned to create a woodcut of the Presidential Seal for the inauguration of John F. Kennedy.

Georg Hirth

Published a series of facsimile-reproductions of German woodcut prints and drawings by Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Jost Amman, Virgil Solis and others in the Liebhaber-Bibliothek alter Illustratoren (1880 ff.)

Hàng Trống painting

Hàng Trống painting (Vietnamese: Tranh Hàng Trống) is a genre of Vietnamese woodcut painting that originated from the area of Hàng Trống (vi) and Hàng Nón streets in the central Hoàn Kiếm District of Hanoi, Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts

The museum covers three floors which house a collection featuring Vietnamese art works in sculpture, oil, silk painting and lacquer painting, as well as traditional styles including woodcut paintings in the Hàng Trống, Đông Hồ, and Kim Hoàng styles, as well as Vietnamese ceramics and a collection of ancient Buddhist art.

Interlude of Youth

Waley's edition of the work appeared probably about the year 1554, and has a woodcut on the title-page of two figures, representing Charity and Youth, two of the characters in the interlude.

Jehan Cousin the younger

Instead, the most likely first printing of the work was 1595 in Paris by David Leclerc, with woodcuts engraved by Jean Leclerc, just after Jehan le jeune's death.

John Imison

Henry Lemoine states that "among other pursuits he made some progress in the art of letter-founding, and actually printed several small popular novels at Manchester, with woodcuts cut by himself."

John Ralston Williams

Williams' patient was James D. Havens, aged 22, who would go on to become a well-known woodcut artist.

Life of the Virgin

Albrecht Dürer produced a highly popular and influential series of 19 scenes in woodcut.

Marcantonio Raimondi

About this time he began to make copies of Dürer's woodcut series, the Life of the Virgin.

North American Native Plant Society

It is a woodcut portraying three native plants representing three transcontinental, native families, viz: Araceae, Orchidaceae, Iridaceae.The examples shown are an arum, a cypripedium and a blue-eyed grass.

Otto Bettmann

Part of this collection was locked in a cabinet because it contained Japanese erotic woodcuts.

Percy Neville Barnett

Commissioning Adrian Feint and George David Perrottet to design plates which were to be gifts to the Prince of Wales and Princess Elizabeth, and which would also be included in his Woodcut Book-plates (1934).

Richard Wroe

Copies of an etched portrait by Walter Geikie were published at Manchester about 1824, and a woodcut appears in the Palatine Notebook, 1882.

Stamp mill

In this woodcut image, there is the scene of three martinets and a waterwheel working wood and leather bellows of the Osmund bloomery furnace.

Thomas Theodor Heine

In 1896 he became successful as an illustrator for the satirical Munich magazine Simplicissimus, for which he appropriated the stylistic idiom of Jugendstil and the graphic qualities of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Aubrey Beardsley and Japanese woodcuts.


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